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Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on high-resolution images is often bottlenecked by the cost of evaluating gradients of the loss on the finest spatial mesh. To address this, we propose Multiscale Gradient Estimation (MGE), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shadab Ahamed , Niloufar Zakariaei , Eldad Haber , Moshe Eliasof

The desire to empower resource-limited edge devices with computer vision (CV) must overcome the high energy consumption of collecting and processing vast sensory data. To address the challenge, this work proposes an energy-efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

We propose a dedicated winner-take-all circuit to efficiently implement the intra-column competition between cells in Hierarchical Temporal Memory which is a crucial part of the algorithm. All inputs and outputs are charge-based for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Andrew W. Stephan , Steven J. Koester

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized image classification by extracting spatial features and enabling state-of-the-art accuracy in vision-based tasks. The squeeze and excitation network proposed module gathers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mahendran Narayanan

In this paper, the intrinsic physical characteristics of spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) devices are leveraged to realize sigmoidal neurons in neuromorphic architectures. Performance comparisons with the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Brendan Reidy , Ramtin Zand

Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) has had a great success in the recent past, because of the advent of faster GPUs and memory access. CNNs are really powerful as they learn the features from data in layers such that they exhibit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Atul Dhingra

We present the design and numerical simulation of a spiking neuron capable of on-chip machine learning. Built within the CMOS+X framework, the spiking neuron consists of an NMOS transistor combined with a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ).…

Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic both the function and structure of biological neural networks to provide artificial intelligence with extreme efficiency. Conventional approaches store synaptic weights in non-volatile memory devices…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Peng Zhou , Alexander J. Edwards , Frederick B. Mancoff , Sanjeev Aggarwal , Stephen K. Heinrich-Barna , Joseph S. Friedman

The human brain achieves exceptional energy efficiency by co-locating memory and processing, yet reproducing this principle in hardware remains challenging because many neuromorphic devices require standby power, offer limited…

This work presents an equivalent circuit model for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) that accurately captures their magnetization dynamics and electrical behavior. Implemented in LTspice, the model is validated against direct numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Steven Louis , Hannah Bradley , Artem Litvinenko , Vasyl Tyberkevych

Coordinate-based Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) networks, despite being capable of learning neural implicit representations, are not performant for internal image synthesis applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are typically used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Javier Cardona , Robert Atkinson , Craig Michie , Ivan Andonovic , Carmine Clemente , Christos Tachtatzis

The paper discusses the capabilities of multilayer perceptron neural networks implementing metric recognition methods, for which the values of the weights are calculated analytically by formulas. Comparative experiments in training a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Polad Geidarov

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)-based magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) is a promising platform for neuromorphic and in-memory computing owing to its non-volatility, high endurance, fast switching dynamics and CMOS compatibility. However,…

This paper presents an algorithm for analytically calculating the weights and thresholds of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) without using standard training procedures. The algorithm enables the determination of CNN parameters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Polad Geidarov

In this work, we study the 1-bit convolutional neural networks (CNNs), of which both the weights and activations are binary. While being efficient, the classification accuracy of the current 1-bit CNNs is much worse compared to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Zechun Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Wenhan Luo , Xin Yang , Wei Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Photonic computing is a computing paradigm which have great potential to overcome the energy bottlenecks of electronic von Neumann architecture. Throughput and power consumption are fundamental limitations of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Saurabh Ranjan , Sonika Thakral , Amit Sehgal

Convolutional neural network (CNN) achieves excellent performance on fascinating tasks such as image recognition and natural language processing at the cost of high power consumption. Stochastic computing (SC) is an attractive paradigm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Xinyue Zhang , Yuan Wang , Yawen Zhang , Jiahao Song , Zuodong Zhang , Kaili Cheng , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang

In this paper a neural network is trained to perform simple arithmetic using images of concatenated handwritten digit pairs. A convolutional neural network was trained with images consisting of two side-by-side handwritten digits, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Marcus D. Bloice , Peter M. Roth , Andreas Holzinger

Convolution neural network (CNN), as one of the most powerful and popular technologies, has achieved remarkable progress for image and video classification since its invention in 1989. However, with the high definition video-data explosion,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yue Jiang , Wenjia Zhang , Fan Yang , Zuyuan He

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown their promise as a universal representation for recognition. However, global CNN activations lack geometric invariance, which limits their robustness for classification and matching of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Yunchao Gong , Liwei Wang , Ruiqi Guo , Svetlana Lazebnik